Congratulations to Amy Chater (Year 9), Imogen Carter (Year 9) Kishan Vegamwala (Year 12), Samu Hayes (Year 12) and Dan Hazell (Year 13) for their winning entries for the recent poetry competition.

Here is an extract from an entry:

Hedgehog bush-bound baby.

If I was a tailor, then I’d be walking free,

But my old man’s a sailor, and he’ll make

one of me,

Mother says I’m wasted, my talents lie behind the line,

But father he won’t take it, he knows what’s right for him, so that’s what’s right for me.

By Dan Hazell

To reward students’ hard work learning important academic vocabulary on Bedrock, we’re giving two lucky students the chance to win a £250 technology bundle (where students can select up to £250 worth of tech) and 50 students will win a £10 gift voucher of their choosing!

Our 52 winners will be chosen at random from all students who earn 120 or more Bedrock Points this half term.

Remote Reading Academy has become real! It has been lovely to see our Year 7 Reading Academy students in The Compass this week, meeting their Post 16 coaches for the first time in ‘real life’, as opposed to on a ‘Google Meet’. Around 70 students have been involved, and all have participated brilliantly in group reading and discussion. Massive thanks to our Post 16 students for their leadership, and Well Done to Year 7s for turning up and taking part during morning registration. The atmosphere has been superb!

This year’s winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony in October 2021. The top 15 winning poets will have their poems published in an anthology in March 2022. Today also marks the publication of the current year’s anthology, entitled You Speak in Constellations. It features winning poems from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020.

Enter the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award

Read the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020 anthology

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Deadline 29th March 2021 see information in the link.